Let’s celebrate Ada Lovelace Day and the pioneering research of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Come along for a discussion with world leading scientists and thinkers on Artificial Intelligence and equality.
From benefits to healthcare and the environment, there is a lot that is exciting about AI and its contribution to our society. However, the risks – including algorithmic bias, invasion of privacy, and the power of big business – are well versed. So how can we ensure that data science and AI is working for and not against us?
Hear about how ideas from computer and data scientists – particularly women – are empowering diversity, cooperation and prosperity for all. As many of us turn to generative AI to increase productivity at work, how can we be sure that the everyday tools we use are ethical and fair?
Join us, ask a question, make a comment, and get involved!
This event is for The Joint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence.
Speakers
Judy Wajcman
Principal Investigator for Women in Data Science and AI
Alan Turing Institute
Judy Wajcman is Principal Investigator for Women in Data Science and AI at the Alan Turing Institute. She also is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her previous positions include the Anthony Giddens Chair in Sociology at the LSE and Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She has also held posts in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sydney, Warwick, most recently holding the Mellon Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Judy has published widely in the fields of science and technology studies, feminist theory, work and organisations, and is probably best known for her analysis of the gendered nature of technology. Her books include The Social Shaping of Technology, Feminism Confronts Technology and TechnoFeminism.
Anna Baldycheva
Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Electronic Engineering
Department of Engineering
University of Exeter
Dr. Baldycheva is an internationally recognised female researcher and expert in emerging technologies, innovator, and entrepreneur in STEMM, and has been featured in Forbes and other media. She is the leader of STEMM Laboratory, a highly interdisciplinary academic research lab where she is working on innovative Nano-Engineering, Opto-Electronics and Photonics, AI and IoT. She is a Fellow, Board Member and Trustee of several esteemed Scientific Communities and Societies, and the founder of the Women in STEMM Initiative – It’s Her! https://itsher.today/ . Since 2019 she serves on the committee of the Jocelyn Bell Brunel PhD Scholarship to support physicists from under-represented groups. By Combining a solid foundation in academic research and teaching with application and entrepreneurial focus, Baldycheva aims to contribute to both academia and the business world by bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Rebecca Kesby
Journalist
BBC
Rebecca Kesby is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and live host. She joined the BBC’s local radio in 1996 and has been at the BBC World Service since 2000.
Evidence based, accurate, fair and responsible journalism are front and centre in Rebecca’s work. She likes digging into the detail, challenging the discourse, rigour, context and substance. She has reported from Africa, China and the US. She is also an audio and visual filmmaker.
Ekaterina Hertog
Associate Professor in AI and Society
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
Ekaterina’s research interests lie at the intersection of digital sociology and family sociology. She leads the ESRC-funded DomesticAI project that scopes new technologies’ potential to free up time now locked into unpaid domestic labour and measures how willing people are to introduce these technologies into their private lives.
Her research interests are Parental Control Technologies and Family Dynamics, Future of Unpaid Work, Technology in Everyday Life, Family Sociology, Time Use, Gender Practices in Households.